Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all.

Um, let’s review this again, just so we’re clear here: Richard Cohen thinks that it’s “conventional” for interracial marriage and biracial children to trigger a gag reflex. And OMG LESBIANS!

Cohen’s the kind of unthinking knee-jerk left-winger that gives you reasonable liberals a bad name. He was a hack 20 years ago when the Post still meant something, and he’s gotten more stupid as time goes on.